Van Tilburg-Bastianen

Van Tilburg-Bastianen is one of the largest automotive dealers in the Netherlands, supplying Volkswagens and Audis as well as DAF trucks, on the Dutch market. The company’s numerous branches and high quality service make it a market leader.

The Challenge:

Originally, an
antivirus solution from a Kaspersky Lab competitor was installed on
most computers at the company’s headquarters, which did not include
centralized administration, making it impossible to control the
integrity of the company’s security policy. As a consequence, when a PC
on the network was infected, system administrators and other users lost
valuable time while the infection was removed, sometimes for up to
several hours.

Computers on the Van Tilburg-Bastianen network run
under different versions of Windows, including Windows NT Server,
Windows NT Workstation, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003
Server and Windows XP, and the network includes laptops, workstations
and servers. The company uses a large number of custom applications to
automate its business processes. Some branches do not have a central
server, and the network is divided into subnets according to the
geographical location of branches. The absence of a centralized
administration feature makes managing the network more complicated,
since troubleshooting needs to be completed on location at individual
branches.

The main criteria used by the IT department in
selecting a new antivirus solution included high detection rates, as
well as protection from spyware and centralized administration tools
included at no additional cost.

The Solution:

Some IT staff
were already familiar with Kaspersky Anti-Virus for home users. The key
factors in the selection Kaspersky Anti-Virus included its the high
detection rate. Additionally, Kaspersky Anti-Virus detects spyware using
its default databases, so there is no additional cost for the
anti-spyware module. The centralized administration of Kaspersky Lab
products is provided through Kaspersky Administration Kit, a convenient
management utility.

The IT department at Van Tilburg-Bastianen decided to
install a new server to provide centralized management of the Kaspersky
Lab solution. The server was installed and configured for the
deployment of Kaspersky Anti-Virus on workstations and servers. Because
of the large number of custom applications installed on the network, the
policy was configured initially using the settings for Kaspersky
Anti-Virus. Kaspersky Administration Kit was used to centrally uninstall
competitor products (using a custom script). The deployment of
Kaspersky Lab products on the Van Tilburg-Bastianen network was
completed without any significant problems: the previous antivirus
product was uninstalled and the new product installed without having to
reboot any of the workstations until installation and configuration were
complete. Overall, installation of the solution on about 50
workstations took one day, including installation of the management
server and writing the script used for uninstalling the existing
antivirus product.

Conclusion:

As a result, Van Tilburg-Bastianen is now able to
control virus activity on the network, which is especially important for
users of laptops and remote workstations. Administrators can create
detailed reports on the status of the network’s protection. All of the
objectives have been met: maximum protection from malicious programs and
spyware has been achieved and centralized management of the antivirus
protection is included and simple. Today, the more than 180 workstations
and 10 servers are reliably protected from viruses and other malware.
According to Van Tilburg-Bastianen IT specialists, Kaspersky Anti-Virus
is a software package that takes protection from viruses seriously.